{"id":27307,"date":"2013-01-04T23:01:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T23:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27307"},"modified":"2013-01-04T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T23:01:11","slug":"there-does-not-exist-today-a-descendant-of-virginia-ancestors-claiming-to-be-an-indian-who-is-unmixed-with-negro-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27307","title":{"rendered":"there does not exist today a descendant of Virginia ancestors claiming to be an Indian who is unmixed with negro blood."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Public records in the office of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, and in the State Library, indicate that there does not exist today a descendant of Virginia ancestors claiming to be an Indian who is unmixed with negro blood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>W. A. [Walter Ashby] Plecker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=27294\" target=\"_blank\">Circular Letter to \u201cLocal Registrars, Clerks, Legislators, and others responsible for, and interested in, the prevention of racial intermixture<\/a>,\u201d <em>Commonwealth of Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics<\/em>, December 1943. (Source: Rockbridge County (Va.) Clerk&#8217;s Correspondence, 1912-1943. Local Government Records Collection, Rockbridge County Court Records. The Library of Virginia. 10-0878-003). <a href=\"http:\/\/lva.omeka.net\/items\/show\/63\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lva.omeka.net\/items\/show\/63<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public records in the office of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, and in the State Library, indicate that there does not exist today a descendant of Virginia ancestors claiming to be an Indian who is unmixed with negro blood. W. A. [Walter Ashby] Plecker, Circular Letter to \u201cLocal Registrars, Clerks, Legislators, and others responsible for, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6770,6372,1857,2474],"class_list":["post-27307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-w-a-plecker","tag-walter-a-plecker","tag-walter-ashby-plecker","tag-walter-plecker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}